Web Design: What Color to use in my site?

If you are new to design, it can be a tough decision to select colors for your web site. Here are some sites that can help you with the process:

• Color Scheme Designer not only provides color options but shows example pages with the color scheme you have chosen.
• ColorJack offers color schemes, a color sphere generator, and a wealth of other resources including articles, software, a blog, etc.
• The Color Wizard offers a variety of ways to choose and compare a variety of color schemes related to a chosen starting color.
• Eric Meyer’s Color Blender is very useful when you want to create site with a monochromatic color scheme.
• Sometimes designers choose colors based on a photograph. Visit colr.org to select a image from the Web and choose colors from from the image for use in your site.
• WellStyled.com offers a handy color scheme generator that will create a variety of color schemes including monochromatic, contrasting, triad, tetrad, and analogic.
• Hypergurl.com offers a color scheme generator that shows a quick preview of text and background colors.
• The color selector at Colors4WebMasters offers point and click color choosing options, immediately shows you the results, and generates CSS to configure the colors.
• Use the RGB sliders to choose a color and Lee Street Management’s QuickColor Flash animation will display a selection of coordinating colors.
• Color Wheel Pro – a program that allows you to see color theory in action: you can create harmonious color schemes and preview them on real-world examples.
• Adobe’s Kuler offers an easy way to browse color schemes or search for a color scheme based on a keyword or theme, such as desert.
• Bruce Clay offers an overview of using color in web design focusing on the the hidden meanings of color, branding, and the power of color.
• Colorcombos.com offers a collection of color combinations for your choice and even provides a method to quickly grab the color palette of a web site.
• COLOURlovers is a self-proclaimed “resource that monitors and influences color trends” — it’s a good place to visit to generate ideas.